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Route advice: Brussels to Frankfurt
« on: 23 July, 2014, 08:59:00 am »
Does anyone (e.g Ivo) have comments on this route from Brussels to Frankfurt, via the Eifel National Park region. Thanks.

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Re: Route advice: Brussels to Frankfurt
« Reply #1 on: 24 July, 2014, 09:08:24 am »
A lot of comments ;)
You miss out all the beauty bits without gaining in easyness. The Eiffel crossing you choose is harsh.
I'd go completely different, more southern. And making good use of several converted railroads to find the right optimum between beauty and hard riding.
So I'd follow your route untill slightly south of Landen. Then the Ravel 127 to Huccorgne. A bit of road riding to Huy where you pick up the Ravel 126 which you follow untill it turns sharply south. Pick your way over roads to Trois Ponts (some beautyfull Ardennes riding here). Then from Trois Ponts follow the old Vennbahn untill you are quite high in the Eifel. The new branch line to the Büttgenbach lake might allready be ready (they were constructing it this spring). It's only a short hop from here to the Losheim region where the Kylltal-Radweg starts, following this small river down to the Mosel. Along the Mosel is another good route down to Koblenz. It might be a tad longer but certainly not harder.

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Re: Route advice: Brussels to Frankfurt
« Reply #2 on: 24 July, 2014, 09:10:18 am »
Thanks Ivo. I'll open up google maps and replot :thumbsup:.
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Re: Route advice: Brussels to Frankfurt
« Reply #3 on: 24 July, 2014, 09:32:26 am »
I have half a plan to do the Kylltal Radweg sometime soon (in the downhill direction, of course) and the Mosel Radweg at the end is beautiful!
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Re: Route advice: Brussels to Frankfurt
« Reply #4 on: 24 July, 2014, 09:39:02 am »
Thanks Ivo. I'll open up google maps and replot :thumbsup:.

I might have a few plots in my computer allready.

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Re: Route advice: Brussels to Frankfurt
« Reply #5 on: 24 July, 2014, 09:41:11 am »
That ^^ is even better :D.
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Re: Route advice: Brussels to Frankfurt
« Reply #6 on: 24 July, 2014, 09:43:48 am »
That ^^ is even better :D.

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